Survival of diapausing and nondiapausing boll weevils (Coleoptera: Cureulionidae) subjected to freezing temperatures

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 407-415

  Slosser, J E ^a,b   Montandon, R ^a,b   Rummel, D R ^a,b   Wilson, L T ^a   Fuchs, Andt W ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

boll weevil; diapause; freezing temperature

Indexed keywords

ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS; ANTHONOMUS GRANDIS GRANDIS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; CUREULIONIDAE;

EID: 0030483401     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/25.2.407     Document Type: Article

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